Monday, June 27, 2011
LAST DAYS IN PICS
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| June 22, Canadian army soldiers sun bathe in Seprwan Ghar, in the southern Afghanistan firebase. Canada will end its combat in Afghanistan by the end of July. |
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| June 27, Serene Williams says Goodbye to Wimbledon, after loosing against French Bertoni. Serena has been a Godess of Tennis, and my personal favorite of this year Wimbledon. |
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| June18, NASA captured this image of Helene, an icy and irregular moon of Saturn. |
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| June17, Unaware of the mordant juxtaposition they produce, children play on the Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. |
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| June15, Vancouver, Canada. Scott Jones and Alex Thomas kiss during a riot after the hockey team, the Vancouver Canucks, lost the Game7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. This photo went viral on web. |
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| Bernice Acosta and other yoga enthusiasts celebrate the longest day of the year in New York's Time Square on June 21st. |
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| June17, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Sakee Muto speaks during a conference in Tokyo. The utility said progress has been made in stabilizing tsunami damaged reactors, but the situation at the crippled plant remains serious. |
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| June23, Filipino boys sit together to keep warm during a heavy downpour in Manila. Tropical storm Meari caused chaos across Philippines. |
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| June21, Poznan, Poland. People launch Chinese lanterns during Kupala Night which is a celebration of the shortest night in the year celebrated in : Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. |
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| June16, Indian policemen beat a student activist during a protest in Kannur, India. |
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| June19, a Lybian girl holds the rebellion's flag during an anti-Gaddafi demonstration in the streets of the rebel-stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya. |
Friday, June 24, 2011
HOT BITE OF THE DAY : DELICIANO
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| This not only handsome man, but amazing tennis player, just won the 3rd round of Wimbledon against Roddick. |
JAPANESE POP IDOL IS AN AVATAR. AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW..
Only 15 seconds in the limelight and she’d already created an overnight buzz. She was the newest member of the very popular all-girl Japanese idol group AKB 48. Upon seeing the new face appear on a candy commercial, the band’s faithful took to the message boards: Who is Aimi Eguchi?
This past Sunday, Ezaki Glico, the candy company which aired the commercial, confirmed what many of AKB 48’s fans had come to suspect: Aimi Eguchi wasn’t real. The new group member, it turns out, was a computer-generated composite of the real band members. Her pretty face was actually made up of the “best features” of six other members: her eyes, nose, mouth, hair/body, face outline and eyebrows were not flesh-and-blood, but cut-and-paste.
Not everyone was so quick to catch on, however, and Aimi had already formed a fan base of her own. “The video shocked fans of Eguchi,” reports ChannelNews Asia, “who were convinced that her features were more the result of good genes than the skillful use of computer graphics.” Watch this video and see if you can tell which ones are human, and which one is AimiThursday, June 23, 2011
THE SOLAR DO-NOTHING MACHINE
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| This colorful kinetic solar toy was designed in the late 1950s by Charles Eames (1907–1978) for ALCOA (Aluminum Company of America). It is Goldberg-esque in its lack of function. It purposely did nothing… |
AI WEIWEI FREEDOM
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| Since being unjustly detained by Chinese authorties this past Spring in Beijing, Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei has become a symbol of free speech and expression throughout the international art community. Today, the artist was freed on bail and has since returned to his family. |
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
IMPRESSIONISTS & MODERN ART AUCTION PREVIEW
SUMMER SOLSTICE TIME
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The summer solstice occurred today at 1:16 p.m. EDT (17:16 GMT), the time the sun is at the highest point possible in the sky. In the Northern Hemphisphere, June 21 is the longest day of the year and marks the official beginning of summer.Today, the North Pole is tilted toward the sun more than any other day in 2011. The summer solstice is a result of the Earth tilted on its axis 23.4 degrees in the direction of the sun, exposing most of the Northern Hemisphere to sunlight.Solstice is derived from Latin words meaning, "sun stands still." The summer solstice occurs when the sun is directly overhead at noon at the Tropic of Cancer.For the Southern Hemisphere, everything is opposite. Today is the actually the beginning of the winter solstice and the shortest day of the year for the Southern Hemisphere.Wherever a person is on the earth today, solstices occurred at the exact moment across all global timezonesEven though on June 21 is the day that the Northern Hemisphere receives the most sunlight in 2011, it is not necessarily the hottest day of the year. Since it takes several weeks for the earth to release the heat from the sunlight, the hottest days in summer are usually in July or August. |
Monday, June 20, 2011
TOOTHPICK BITE
“Rolling through the Bay”, the world’s largest kinetic sculpture made entirely of toothpicks. It has taken Scott Weaver more than 35 years and 100,000 toothpicks to build it. Incredible!
Scott Weaver's Rolling through the Bay from The Tinkering Studio on Vimeo.
Friday, June 17, 2011
ARTIST'S BITE OF THE DAY: JEREMY DOWER
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| Jeremy Dower's psychedelic stuffed animals come to life in this colored rainbow magical world. I love them. |
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